Roses are red
Violets are blue
To save and quit vim
Use :wq
@neil I will stick this one to my monitor

@revk

For my US audience:

Roses are red
Not brown like coffee.
To quit vi use
capital Z Z

For my non-US audience

Violets are blue
Roses are red
To quit vi use
capital Z Z

๐Ÿ˜‰

@neil #zee #zed

@gumnos @revk @neil

Yea; but in both cases, one should press the ESC key at least half a dozen times first!

@revk @neil There was a bug in the original Unix vi, when recovering your changes after a crash: ZZ would fail to save your changes (gone forever), vs :wq would save them. I'm still typing :wq decades later. ๐Ÿ˜„
@bjnord @neil I was mocked for using vi. But then there was a short power cut at offices. I lost like last 10 characters I had typed or something because of recovery stuff. Others lost a lot of work.
@neil But violet is NOT blue. They don't have the same sRGB value!
@neil Escape! Escape! Escape! :-D
@neil And yet one should definitely say
as a proper preamble
if you use the w blindly, do so and pray
because that is a serious gamble.
@neil I thought the 1st Rule of quitting vim was....

@neil

Violets are blue
Roses are red
Why would you ever
Want to quit ed?

(yes, it's pronounced "ee dee" but for the sake of the rhyme, I invoke my poetic license)

@neil Now do EMACS :D

@poing @neil

EMACS version:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
If your serial interface doesn't support hardware flow control
You can't use CTRL-Q

@neil Roses are red
Violets are blue
To quit stuff, you should use Ctrl+Q
@neil
Roses are red
Voilets are blue
...
Genoa CFC is red and blue
โค๏ธ๐Ÿ’™โšฝ๏ธ
@neil :q! to throw away your changes.

@neil

Roses are red
Violets are blue
To save and quit Word
Oh wait it crashed.

@thedarkener @neil Parsnips are buttered
Potatoes are mashed
......

@neil
Tiny edit, still works!

Roses are red
Violets are blue
To save and quit vim
Esc :wq

@neil i prefer :wqa

like... keeping that one bullet for yourself...

@neil

It almost makes my cry ๐Ÿ˜˜

@neil this might very well be my favourite poem now ๐Ÿ˜…

@neil

Does not work.

I will hit ESC now.

@SpaceLifeForm @neil

Instructions unclear
Set my computer on fire
Now I can be free

[Edit for haiku]

@bruce @neil

The trick to exit
is to understand the modes
escape always works

@neil

Roses are red
Violets are blue
To save and quit vim
ZZ will do

@neil I remember my friend always nagging me about using VIM. ๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ˜†